Pebble Beach Quotes

• Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.

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  Johnny Miller

  Golf   Land   Water  

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• The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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  Blaise Pascal

  Nature   Motivation   Ocean  

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• If St. Andrews is the home of golf, I think Pebble Beach feels like the home of American golf, like the home of championship golf. It has a real sense of history here.

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  Stewart Cink

  Beach   Real   Home  

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• Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.

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  Bob Hope

  Beach   Golf   Pebbles  

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• No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack

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  Zadie Smith

  Suicide   Beach   Ocean  

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White teeth”

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• The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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  Isaac Newton

  Trust   Truth   Ocean  

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• I love New York City for its energy. Pebble Beach, Carmel Beach and that all area, for its completely laid back energy. Paris for the charm, shopping and the glamour.

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  Eva LaRue

  Beach   New York   Cities  

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• When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies at the court of Louis XV, will recite the glories of Portmarnock and Merion, of the Road Hole at St. Andrews, the sixth at Seminole, the eighteenth at Pebble Beach. They will take out this volume from its secret hiding place and they will say: "There is no question, son, that these were unholy places in an evil age. Unfortunately, I had a whale of a time."

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  Alistair Cooke

  Beach   Son   Golf  

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• I would like to play Pebble Beach at some point. I keep waiting for them to call and ask me to that little pro-am thing, but I'm not big enough.

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  Lewis Black

  Beach   Play   Waiting  

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• If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.

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  Jack Nicklaus

  Beach   Play   World  

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• I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

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  Jack Nicklaus

  Beach   Golf   Thinking  

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• I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open venue.

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  Jack Nicklaus

  Beach   Golf   Men  

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• I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational   Success   Trust  

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

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  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wise   Beach   Ocean  

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• Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.

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  Natalie

  Beach   Pebbles   Tough  

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 14, 2004.

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